About this course
Introduces the disciplines, roles and activities of systems engineering and the traceable documentation of results from requirement to system architecture. The agenda covers systems engineering motivation and disciplines, system analysis and architecture; defining the system context and documenting the technical context; model-based documentation of requirements (information models, use case and activity diagrams, state machines); documenting a system architecture in SysML (black-box, white-box and further views); and NAFv4, its enterprise, capability and project levels, and how to do systems engineering with it, with examples. SOPHIST states that participants learn to explain ADMBw@NAFv4, the Bundeswehr architecture data model, build models to it and integrate its architecture management approach into modelling.
Runs online via Microsoft Teams; on-site delivery for teams is stated.
Facilitators
Facilitator not identified in public sources checked.
Who should attend
- People who model architectures in defence-industry projects (audience as recorded on 31 Oct 2026)
Learning outcomes
- Understand and apply systems engineering fundamentals, including typical roles, activities and the features of a successful development process.
- Analyse and set the system context as the basis for eliciting requirements.
- Document functional and non-functional requirements in natural language and with models.
- Choose and use the main SysML diagram types, and describe system architectures with components, interfaces and allocated requirements.
- Explain NAFv4 and ADMBw@NAFv4 and build models to it, integrating its architecture management approach into modelling.
Course outline
- 01
Systems engineering: an introduction
Motivation and definition · The disciplines in systems engineering · System analysis · System architecture
- 02
Context boundaries
Defining the system context · Documenting the technical context
- 03
Model-based documentation of requirements
Basics of modelling · Information models · Use case diagrams · Activity diagrams · State machines
- 04
Documenting a system architecture with SysML
Black-box view · White-box view · Additional views
- 05
NAFv4
What NAFv4 is · The framework: enterprise, capability and project levels · Doing systems engineering with NAFv4 · Examples
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Blended course on SysML fundamentals: model properties, general SysML concepts and the diagram types, applied by building a SysML model in two webinars; follows Bertrandt's SE/MBSE Module 1.
24 hours (blended: kick-off, two weeks of self-study, two 3-hour webinars)
- Regions
- Germany
- Access
- Public enrolment
- Delivery
- Live online · Self-paced · Hybrid
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Course facilitators may include: Jon Holt
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- Regions
- United Kingdom
- Access
- Public enrolment · Private / corporate
- Delivery
- Face-to-face · Live online
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Foundation to practitioner2 days
- Access
- Private / corporate
- Delivery
- Face-to-face · Live online